This past Monday, HPD officers transported 25-year-old David Hamilton from Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he’d been held since Sept. 30 for a parole violation, to Charlotte, where he was charged Tuesday with murdering his parents, James Hamilton, 73, and Stephanie Hamilton, 56.

David Hamilton is being held without bond after a court appearance Tuesday. Court records show he was arrested in 2007 on charges of breaking and entering, larceny and burglary at a home in Iredell County.

After that arrest, David Hamilton reportedly was examined at a state mental hospital, called himself the “Lamb of God” and a “prophet,” and claimed God had told him to enter the home, according to court documents.

He was later convicted on the break-in charges and sentenced to five years of probation. Court records show he was to participate in a Christian-based drug and alcohol rehab program in Caldwell County as part of his probation.

Hamilton apparently violated his probation in April when he was arrested for jumping the fence at Germany’s embassy in Washington, D.C., according to reports, but probation officers had not yet arrested Hamilton.